Quercus imbricaria, commonly called shingle oak is native primarily from Pennsylvania to Iowa and Arkansas. Many Native Americans used Shingle Oak as an antiseptic, an astringent, an emetic, and a tonic. They even used it for mouth sores, asthma, and laryngitis. Shingle Oak got its name by early settlers in the Midwest for using the wood for  shingles. Shingle Oak grows better in rich, moist, acidic soil and full sun. This Oak is tolerant of drought, urban conditions and slightly alkaline soil. 

Shingle Oak is used now of days as a shaded area for a park or street.it can also be pruned for use as a screen or hedge. The wood was used for lumber, veneer, pulpwood, railroad cross ties, wagon wheel spokes and rims, furniture, cabinetry, flooring, paneling, interior finishing, slack cooperage, fence posts, boxes, crates, pallets, blocking, corn pestles and mortars, and firewood. With how fast the acorns grow on the tree it benefits many animals like Wild Turkey, Bobwhite, Blue Jay, White-Breasted Nuthatch, Tufted Titmouse Black Bear, Opossum, Raccoon, Southern Flying Squirrel, Gray Squirrel, Fox Squirrel, Red Squirrel, Eastern Chipmunk, White-Footed Mouse, and White-Tailed Deer as a food source and even as a shelter.  

This Oak has many diseases and insects that can harm them including oak wilt, chestnut blight, shoestring root rot, anthracnose, oak leaf blister, cankers, leaf spots and powdery mildew. Potential insect pests include scale, oak skeletonizer, leaf miner, galls, oak lace bugs, borers, caterpillars and nut weevils. Some other potential problems include obscure scale, two-lined chestnut borer, bacterial leaf scorch, oak horn gall and gypsy moth, and even 1 inch of fill soil can kill an oak. Shingle Oak is not in danger of going  extinct.